Welcome to This Week in Women's Health Care—the round-up for women who care about what's going on in Washington and around the country and how it affects their rights. Once a week, we'll bring you the latest news from the world of politics and explain how it impacts you. Let's get to it!

Here's what's up…

The GOP’s "skinny repeal" of Obamacare was struck down after three Republican senators voted against it.

The GOP's quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) hit yet another roadblock early Friday morning. In a last-ditch effort to dismantle Obamacare, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other GOP leaders unveiled a so-called "skinny repeal" of Obamacare (a less expansive version of a partial Obamacare repeal) that they'd kept secret from their colleagues and the public for week. GOP senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and John McCain of Arizona voted against the bill, leaving it unable to move forward. "This is clearly a disappointing moment," McConnell said after the vote failed. "It's time to move on."

Thousands of nuns wrote to Congress asking them to vote no on that same Obamacare "skinny repeal."

McCain, Collins, Murkowski, and all the other senators who voted against the GOP's skinny Obamacare repeal likely just made some nuns very happy. Earlier this week, 7,000 Catholic sisters signed a letter asking senators to "cast a life-affirming 'no' vote" on any bill seeking to repeal Obamacare, and called the measures "the most harmful legislation to American families in our lifetime." The sisters continued by explaining that their mission is to serve vulnerable populations and that health care should be a right—not a privilege.

President Donald Trump tweeted that transgender individuals will now be banned from serving in the military "in any capacity."

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump published several tweets announcing that transgender individuals will no longer be allowed to serve in the military "in any capacity." "After consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military," he explained in a series of tweets. "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." The Pentagon reportedly has yet to enforce this new ban.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers have urged Betsy DeVos to continue publishing the list of schools under investigation for Title IX violations.

The Education Department has yet to decide whether or not it will publicly share the list of schools being investigated for potential Title IX violations. Title IX is a provision of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 that protects people at educational institutions from facing sexual harassment, sex-based discrimination, and sexual violence. Both Republican and Democratic legislators are now pushing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to continue sharing the list of schools under Title IX investigation for the sake of transparency.

Jeff Sessions announced that cities that don’t comply with immigration officials will lose federal funding.

In an effort to combat sanctuary cities (where people who have immigrated without documentation are more protected from things like deportation), Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that cities that refuse to work with Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents will be denied federal grant money. Cities will risk losing significant funding if they don't let ICE officials into their jails, keep their law enforcement officers from sharing immigration status information with ICE, or release someone who ICE has a detainer on without giving ICE notice 48 hours in advance.

A Texas congressman said he’d fight female senators if they were men. (He’s since apologized.)

After three female Republican senators stymied McConnell's efforts to repeal Obamacare last week, Texas Representative Blake Farenthold said he'd challenge them to a duel—if they were men. "Some of the people that are opposed to this [repeal] are female senators," Farenthold said in a radio interview, describing Collins, Murkowski, and West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito. "If it was a guy from South Texas, I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr–style." In case you need a high school history refresher, Aaron Burr was the one who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. After Farenthold's comments surfaced, Collins was caught on a hot mic calling him "so unattractive it's unbelievable." She later publicly apologized for her comments, and Farenthold sent her a letter of apology in return.

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